Force group ?

[Rafał Szcześniak]

Alan Hourihane wrote:
> 
> Following on from this - I can't get force group to
> work at all in 2.0.5a. It completely ignores the line.
> 
> Any clues ?
> 
> This is my share setup.
> 
> By default users primary group is 'users'.
> 
> [telco]
>         path = /samba/telco
>         force group = telco
>         force create mode = 0770
>         force directory mode = 0770
>         create mask = 0770
>         valid users = root, @telco
>         write list = root, @telco
>         guest ok = no
>         browseable = yes
> 

Try to use:
  force group = +telco

This forces group 'telco' only when current user
accessing this share is member of group 'telco'.
Of course use also:
   valid users = root, @telco
or:
   valid users = @telco (when root is simply added to @telco)

This works for me (Samba PDC 2.0.5a)

Greetings :-)
Rafał

> Alan.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Alan Hourihane [SMTP:alanh at pinacl.co.uk]
> Sent:   06 September 1999 11:02
> To:     Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> Subject:        Force group ?
> 
> I have a number of users with home directories
> under /home/????. Their default group is users.
> 
> I need to make some of these directories available
> for other users, so I've created a group that's actually
> the same as the users name of their home directory.
> 
> For example,
> 
> drwxrwx...      georgef  georgef  ......
> 
> Then, I add a bunch of users into that group in /etc/group.
> 
> georgef:500:x:georgef,paulw,ianp
> 
> etc,etc.
> 
> It works and people can get to his home directory, but....
> 
> When another user saves a file into georgef's directory
> it gets created with georgef's primary group which is 'users'
> and I don't want that.
> 
> I've tried using
> 
> force group = %u or %U
> 
> in the samba config, but thinking again that won't work.
> 
> Anyone any ideas ?
> 
> Alan.